Live from LA it’s PDC: Keynote Day 2

Update: My computer battery died before the end of the keynote – and my Nokia Tablet didn’t like the conference wireless set up - just went they were introducing Live Services. For more information regarding Live Mesh Development check this out.

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My computer’s battery is dying switching to the Nokia Tablet…

10.25am Live Services  = Identity + Directory + Communication and Presence + Search and Geospatial

10.24am Time for Live Services.

10.23am Announcing Silverlight in side the browser and out using Live Mesh.

10.20am Announcing the Silverlight toolkit. A set of controls that are available in WPF and now into Silverlight 2.0 including charting controls and made available under the MPL Open Source license.

10.18am Silverlight. NBC Olympics – kudos to my mates in Schematic for this ;-) -  with adaptive streaming. And announcing IIS Smooth Streaming to enabling this features for free on Windows Server.

10.17am Support for different Web.config’s depending on the scenario it’s been publishing. *nice*

10.16am ASP.NET 4 is on the road with VS10, including Web Forms, MVC, Ajax and Distributed Caching using Velocity.

10.14am ASP.NET is first and he is talking about the current state of the Web technologies, including full intelligence support starting today of JQuery within VS2008.

10.13am The Gu is back and now is time for the .NET Continuum.

10.11am really cool demo with support for barcode recognition using the integrated webcam. Kudos to cochango for this really neat demo.

10.07am Demo time, TESCO – biggest grocery shopping in the world. A grocery store API coming soon, nice. Showing a cork board application, letting users interact from within the kitchen.

10.05am Showing new extensibility capabilities for VS10, based on MEF and able to take full advantage of WPF right from within -Looking forward for aggiorno to take advantage of it. *awesome*

10.01am Visual Studio 10 build with WPF and support for Multi-monitor and richer code visualization.

10.00am WPF Improvements: multi-touch, deep zoom, visual state manager, text. Huge: .NET CLR 2 will be able to load on the same process as the CLR 4, enabling support for legacy assemblies.

9.58am Silverlight and WPF shares the same templating tooling so you better reuse your assets.

9.55am Now it’s time for touch.

9.50am Showing how to take advantage of new features of Windows from an existing WPF app. Introducing the new Ribbon control and contextual task support for Jump Lists.

9.49am Demo time.

9.48am Windows Applications for .NET has improved significantly with the update to .NET 3.5 SP1 and will be built into Windows 7.

9.47am VS10 will have support for very large code bases and multi core development, along with Native APIs for Windows 7 specific features.

9.47am The Gu takes the Stage.

9.43am Calls to action: Install Windows 7, Develop 64-bit, Integrate to Windows Desktop and Write for Standards - btw remember you can use aggiorno to get your Web sites and apps standards with just a couple of clicks.

9.41am Path to RTM: Pre-beta, E7 Blog, Beta, Feedback tool. Customer Experience Improvement. Release Candidates to RTM phases.

9.30am Cool, support for VHD, multi monitor support and boot from there to test and development environments. Really cool features handy during development.

9.29am Fundamentals for Windows 7: decrease memory, disk i/o and power consumption; while increasing speed and efficiency.

9.20am Developer features for Windows 7: Ribbon UI, Jump Lists (group of applications in the start menu and taskbars), Libraries (storage groups that work seamlessly across computers and devices), Multi-touch, Ink and Speech, and the DirectX family.

9.17am WordPad now supports the OpenXML format out of the box. Part of their commitment to standards, following the steps on IE8.

9.15am Ecosystem Readiness, Standards, Compatibility and Scenarios of use, is what they learned from Vista RTM up to the day to make Windows 7 the best choice for Desktop OS.

9.14am Steve is talking about the feedback they got for Vista, including blogs, press… oh some commercials.

9.12am Windows Live Essentials is a suite of Rich Applications that enhances the experiences in the desktop. Windows Live Services will enable a complete set of communication and experiences across PC + Web and the Phone.

9.10am Demoing Paint to interact with finger painting.

9.10am touch is mapped to mouse events, so even if the application doesn’t provides support for gestures, mouse events will be triggered to augment the experience.

9.09am IE8 supports on screen keyboard with words assistance and gestures understanding.

9.07am Windows 7 now supports touch (way better than Mac gestures) even on applications that don’t know about touch.

9.04am Showing personalization features in Windows. Glass colors, system tray icons configuration and performance features are now just a couple of clicks away.

9.02am Side bar gadgets are now able to dock anywhere in the desktop and not only on the side.

9.02am Printing management capabilities depending on location.

9.01am Showcasing a new and rich device manager. Allows to access all capabilities from the device and exposed to the user.

9.00am Windows Media Player now sports support to play music from other galleries in the home as well as to devices hooked to the network – similar to iTunes capabilities.

8.59am Showing new network discovery capabilities for content management and discovery. Allows to search and access information in other computers within the same work.

8.56am Windows Explorer. You can add libraries to storage views, so mixes different storage locations into a single view, really handy when several external hard drives

8.52am First demo of Windows 7. A new task bar. Really cool. When you hover the apps it will bring all of the Windows of that application into a thumb view and when hover the thumb will bring the window to the front.

New improvements into the Windows management system, multi monitors friendly, docking and manual rearrangement of windows in the task bars.

8.50am Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 share the same kernel but we will focus on the client today.

8.50am Steven takes the stage to talk about Windows 7.

8.49am Ray is introducing the next set of speakers.

8.47am Ray is talking about Web Apps that can be download, work offline: a continues experience - wait what?! Silverlight Offline?

8.46am applications that can be easily installed, isolated. Delivery the best of experiences under a given context.

8.45am platforms should work together and yet we want to have access to the power and capabilities of each.

8.43am the web is a common place of gathering. Between the URL and email, the web has become everyone’s front end, yet the browser should not be central point because of its boundaries and limitations.

8.40am Ozzie tell us we need to focus to make the most out of combined value for our customers investments. Our objective is to enable a combination of PC + Web + Phone that is greater than the sum of its parts.

8.38am Ray introduces the position we all share around the PC and talks about how the web and the PC have been up today 2 different worlds.

8.35am Ray Ozzie takes the stage and welcomes the audience. Today will be focused on the front end infrastructure. The future of experiences of personal computing: pc, phones and web. 

8.32am Lights are out and video is playing. with all new .NET logos and great set of applications been showcased.

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Alright it’s Tuesday, October 28th 2008 and things are getting ready to rock on for Microsoft’s most important conference in the last few years.

Today we will be focusing on Windows 7 and the next generation of Development tooling focusing on VS10 and .NET 4.0. I am eager to see the strategy on Live Mesh as well and the next generation of services targeted to consumers.

Good times to be in the industry indeed and I am exited on been here.

Once again, check often this post as I am ready for live blog this event.

Cheeers!